Chocolate and Pretzel M&M Cookies

This is my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe!! Not too soft not too crunchy and delicious then as an added bonus you add the pretzel M&M's and sea salt. Amazing!

The only change that I made to the recipe is that I didn't mix the M&M's into the batter because the candy coating ended up all smeared. Instead I made my little dough balls and squeezed three M&M's on each one. As you can see the cookies spread quite a bit so make sure you leave plenty of space.

Poached to Perfection

Yay! This is my first post using my new camera! I still have a lot to learn but I am excited that I can finally take pictures in my house after 3:00 PM.

This month's Daring Cooks challenge was mainly about poaching and it included three recipes to choose from: Eggs Benedict, Oeufs en Meurette & Homemade Sundried Tomato & Pine Nut Seitan Sausages.

Maybe the Eggs Benedict sounds boring and unoriginal next to the other two choices but I had just about everything I needed and I had never before poached an egg. There may have been an attempt 9 years ago but since it ended terribly I prefer to pretend that it never happened.

Jenn and Jill have challenged The Daring Cooks to learn to perfect the technique of poaching an egg. They chose Eggs Benedict recipe from Alton Brown, Oeufs en Meurette from Cooking with Wine by Anne Willan, and Homemade Sundried Tomato & Pine Nut Seitan Sausages (poached) courtesy of Trudy of Veggie num num.